Understanding your business's energy use can help you reduce costs and lower emissions. Installing an energy metering and monitoring system gives you the data needed to identify inefficiencies, track performance and make informed decisions. It’s a vital component of effective facility management.
Metering and monitoring systems provide valuable data to measure and optimise energy performance. They can help your business:
- save around 5 to 15% in energy costs
- operate your facility more effectively and improve energy performance
- identify options for electrification to reduce energy costs and emissions
- track and report your energy performance
- access government support for equipment upgrades.
Resources to help you get started
Read our quick fact sheets to learn how metering and monitoring can support different business goals. They feature results from NSW Government funded metering and monitoring projects across the state.
- The business benefits of metering: a guide for executives (PDF, 243 KB)
- Making the business case with data-driven insights (PDF, 267 KB)
- Metering and monitoring for emissions reduction reporting (PDF, 340 KB)
- Smarter energy use in production and quality control (PDF, 315 KB)
- Metering strategies for commercial buildings (PDF, 245 KB)
- Use metering to manage peak demand costs in manufacturing (PDF, 250 KB)
Read our practical guides for how to get started with installing a metering and monitoring system.
Success stories
Learn how other NSW businesses are taking advantage of our support to make the case for energy and cost-saving equipment upgrades.
Baked goods manufacturer Tip Top upgraded the metering system at their Chullora site in 2021, with funding from the NSW Government. Watch their story to learn about the unexpected places they found energy savings, and their equipment upgrade plans across Australia and New Zealand.
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Collecting robust data in a NSW Government heat pump feasibility pilot showed pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca that they could reduce boiler energy use by 33.8%. Watch how the study guided them to install a heat pump in the next stage of their emissions reduction journey.
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